Posted By JEFF RUNGE on 09/15/2008 10:06 AM
Ok I thought the question in the original post was asking about other TRAIN related interests? I could edit my original post and add, guns, photography, mountain biking,fishing, and a half dozen other minor interests. Or did i read the question wrong. I'm Ok with all other interests, just didn't read the request that way??
Dear Mr Runge - not to me, it didn't.
And to show you that I'm neither single-minded nor illiterate, and yet still maintaining the railroad ethos, I'm also VERY keen in 1/3rd scale live steam and dismals running on 7.25" NG track, as well as H0 North Western US lines, CPR, CNR and ONR and the British pre-nationalised LNER. Me and ig like the shade of apple/Doncaster green of the locos.
I also have a collection of about twenty LGB Euro steamy stuff and most of the 1/22.5 White Pass stuff including the Aster/LGB Mike and around eighty or so cars, and around thirty 1/29 Aristocraft and USA Trains. I have all the Fn3 Bachmann geared locos, and all of their Fn3 rod engines except the K-27 - I have the Accucraft version of that one - and a freightcars and passenger cars to suit. I build my logging cars to suit the geared stuff.
In live steam I'm ashamed to admit that I only have one Aster - a BR01 and eight Maerklin ozeanblau cars, a Maerklin S3/6, an Accucraft three-cylinder Shay, and an Accucraft NG/G16 Garratt. I'm on the waiting list for the new WHR cars from GRS here in UK.
BTW, here in the UK we tend not to get 'passionate' about stuff, preferring a more phlegmatic and studied approach - a sort of 'that's rather nice' rather than 'hot dang and whoopee'.
tac